Following the long tradition of International UIE-Congresses starting 80 years ago in the Netherlands and recently taken place in Durban/South Africa 2004, Krakow/Poland 2008 and St. Petersburg/Russia 2012 the Institute of Electrotechnology of the Leibniz Universität Hannover/Germany organizes the XVIII International UIE-Congress on Electrotechnologies for Material Processing in Hannover (Germany), June 6 - 9, 2017